The United States, which still maintains a trade embargo against Cuba, was the notable exception, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham-Clinton advocated for democratic and human rights reforms in Cuba as pre-requisites to the island's readmission.

What would — a citizenry, familiar with arms that may join together whenever they are needed, being an important safeguard to free existence and self-government — adversely affect that the government is barred from doing any act that limits any citizen from the necessary pre-requisites (owning and practicing with a personally owned weapon generally equivalent to that which a “regular” soldier mayuse)??

My college system used to have no age requirements; as long as you were emotionally mature enough, met course pre-requisites, had school permission (during the school year), and parents signed permission, and you paid for your tuition and books (no financial aid), you could take classes.

If the claim recites software elements and hardware elements, and the hardware elements themselves are an inventive contribution to the art, then the claim may be patentable, provided that the claim as a whole is such that the pre-requisites of novelty, non-obviousness and utility are met.

Second, it means that non-lawyers who do provide legal services are not subject to the kind of oversight, regulation, and educational pre-requisites that would be possible by bringing them under the auspices of the formal legal system.